ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The human security concept challenges the traditional view of state security. The very essence of human security means to respect human rights. The Commission on Human Security did not focus on women as ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Due to the extensive prevalence of sexual violence permeating the present day South African
society, the social relevance of a study of the extent and nature of sexual harassment among
university students, ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The HIV-epidemic that is evident in South Africa today is infecting more women than men. This is
mostly due to the vulnerability that women are facing in sexual relationships, where they are not able
to ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Gender Mainstreaming (GM) was popularised as an approach to advance gender equality
at the United Nations (UN) World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Since then
it has been adopted by the UN and ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a comparative study of the politics of land reform in Zimbabwe and South
Africa. Robert Cox’s critical theory is the theoretical framework used in carrying out the
study. The particular ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I explore people’s perceptions of the causes of poverty. Literature
reveals that there are three broad theoretical explanations of perceptions of the causes of
poverty: individualistic ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation aims to establish the reasons underlying possible gendered attrition
trends in the South African medical profession between 1996 and 2005. Noting the
international trend of the increasing ...

The question addressed in this thesis was how women developed a feminist identity
around other markers of identity, such as race, gender, motherhood, etc. and in the face
of the negative connotations of the feminist label ...

This thesis contributes to existing literature on violent and peaceful societies generally, and more specifically contributes to debates on gender egalitarian societies within the fields of Peace, Gender and Indigenous ...